How can that not be real?"

However, it was an elaborate scam, and here’s the truth about what really went down.

“So it sounded very sort of real,” she toldABC News.

Brad Paisley smiling

“But she wasn’t dying to get a hold of me.

You know, that was kind of the beginning of the manipulation.”

Brad Paisley even ended up on the phone, singing “Amazing Grace” down the line.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Brad Paisley smiling

Doesn’t seem like god hears much of anything these days."

“That there were real kids, that there were real photos involved.”

Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Brad Paisley smiling